FEWOCiOUS Pride NFT Coming Through Billboard Platform

Prolific artist FEWOCiOUS is dropping a 250-edition collection in partnership with Billboard Chart Stars NFT.

Each NFT will cost $250 and proceeds from the collection will benefit the Trevor Project — a suicide prevention and mental health organization for LBGTQ youth. The drop for the FEWOCiOUS Pride collectible is set for July 29 at 2:00 p.m. ET.

FEWOCiOUS, whose real name is Victor Langlois, was featured in Billboard magazine's Pride issue. He also helped design the cover. Langlois, who is trans, talked to Billboard about growing up with "very conservative" parents all while he started questioning his own gender identity and exploring who he was through art.

When he was 17 he sold his first piece online.

“I was really just sitting there like, ‘What do you mean, these people on the internet like me and don’t care about my orientation?'” he told Billboard. “‘They just accept me and my art? I have enough money to move out? I have enough money to get testosterone or top surgery? I have enough money to exist on my own?’ It was all very overwhelming.”

FEWOCiOUS designed the cover of Billboard's Pride issue.

Langlois is now 19 and fresh off one of the most successful NFT drops back in April, where he sold about $20 million worth of Paint Drop NFTs on Nifty Gateway for $500-$1,000 each. About 7,300 of the collection have been migrated to OpenSea where the floor is 0.29 ETH.

Those hoping to secure a FEWOCiOUS Pride NFT will need to register for Billboard Chart Stars on the website. Owning the NFT allows the holder two tickets to an upcoming Billboard event like such as Latin Music Week or Women in Music. Owners will also receive access to future FewoWorld paint parties, where they can paint with Langlois.

“Growing up, there was almost no trans visibility for me to see, and I would get so frustrated, because I wanted to work so hard to do cool s–t so I could let someone else see what I was doing and feel that validation,” he told Billboard. “Maybe it’s not art — maybe you do fashion, maybe you do makeup, maybe it's something else entirely — but be the person that you aren’t seeing enough of in the world.”

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